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The Principles of Humanitarian Action in International Humanitarian Law

Publication - Research reports and studies - 16 March 2000

Kate Mackintosh

This paper is concerned with the principles of humanitarian action. It examines the efforts by international organisations to operationalise codes of conduct. Based on case studies in Sudan and Liberia, it assesses whether the legal content of these terms can determine the legitimacy of human-rights 'conditionality'; and asks whether international law requires that humanitarian assistance be given with the consent of the relevant parties to the conflicts in question.

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The Agreement on Ground Rules in South Sudan

Publication - Research reports and studies - 16 March 2000

HPG Reports 4

Mark Bradbury, Nicholas Leader and Kate Mackintosh

This report offers an independent analysis of the 'Ground Rules' agreed between the UN's Operation Lifeline Sudan and SPLM/A leader John Garang in July 1995. It argues that the influence of the Ground Rules is evident in five areas: in the regulation and coordination of the humanitarian programme in southern Sudan; in the system of security; in the management of assistance; in protection activities; and in capacity-building and good governance

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The Joint Policy of Operation and the Principles and Protocols of Humanitarian Action in Liberia

Publication - Research reports and studies - 16 March 2000

HPG Reports 3

Philippa Atkinson and Nicholas Leader

This case study looks at the Principles and Protocols of Humaitarian Operation (PPHO) and the Joint Policy of Operation (JPO) in an attempt to develop a more explicitly ‘principled’ approach to working in conflict.

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The Politics of Principle: The Principles of Humanitarian Action in Practice

Publication - Research reports and studies - 16 March 2000

HPG Reports 2

Nicholas Leader

This report is the synthesis report of an independent study by ODI into humanitarian principles.

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Coherence and conditionality: the changing politics of humanitarian aid

Projects - January 1999 to December 2003

The end of the Cold War marked a shift in the relationship between humanitarian and political action in response to complex political emergencies. This project looks into the implications for humanitarianism of this changing environment.

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Humanitarian principles in practice

Projects - June 1998 to June 2000

This research examines what humanitarian principles mean for humanitarian agencies and evaluates the impact field-level experiments in a 'principled approach' have had on agency practice and the behaviour of belligerents.

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Principles, politics and the humanitarian system

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This area of focus aims to enhance understanding of the evolving institutions and principles of humanitarian action and politics. HPG looks at the ‘humanitarian system’ itself and how the nature of action is affected by the way the system is configured and operates. A substantial increase in the number and variety of humanitarian actors and growing pressure for greater coherence between humanitarians, development actors and politicians, raises difficult challenges for effective and principled action at both operational and policy levels.

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Principles, politics and the humanitarian system

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HPG looks at the ‘humanitarian system’ itself and how the nature of action is affected by the way the system is configured and operates. A substantial increase in the number and variety of humanitarian actors and growing pressure for greater coherence between humanitarians, development actors and politicians, raises difficult challenges for effective and principled action at both operational and policy levels.

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